How to connect the historic downtown,
the surrounding city houses, and the dense
construction in the new Sainte-Geneviève
mixed development area? With an hybrid project
between urban development and architecture.
Weaving a new urban fabric, the contrasting and
assertive heights enables the insertion of these
157 housing units into this context, all the while
ensuring a certain level of density and a high
quality of usage. The medium-sized collective
housing buildings look out onto broadly scaled
public spaces while smaller collective buildings
and stacked houses, are positioned along the
secondary roadways. A new public pathway cuts
across the entire project. The individual access
points to the housing units are organized into
transversal alleys that empty out onto this
pedestrian space, creating adept and smooth
transitions between public and private space
that reinvent what it feels like to come home,
and it also generates bonds between inhabitants.